As Built Interview with Chris Fogarty, AIA, RIBA

Fogarty Finger Co-Founding Principal Chris Fogarty, AIA, RIBA, talks with host Patience Jones about starting his own firm as he looks forward to celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Chris and Patience discuss his career beginnings at SOM, the experience of growing Fogarty Finger by almost double the headcount, and the firm’s new project The Eliza, an innovative mixed-use development that combines affordable housing with a cutting-edge public library.‍

Highlights

• How unsuccessfully trying to quit a job led Chris to more opportunities
• The reasons Chris and his business partner Robert Finger work so well together
• The role of storytelling in the firm’s work
• How to measure “success” in an architecture firm
• The difficulty of simplicity, and how Chris conveys the concept to the design team as well as to clients
• The importance of being able to start over
• Why self-storage units are a problem for cities, and the larger problematic issues they represent

Episode Resources

‍Connect with Brian Jones and Patience Jones

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/graphicmachine/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-jones-graphicmachine/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/patiencejones/

Connect with Chris Fogarty

• https://fogartyfinger.com/people/chris-fogarty
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-fogarty-aia-264b3414/